ok, i found my error file log in:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ASGvis\VfS
then i discovered from the file that there were textures in my materials that it could not find and was timing out. apparently i had a texture that was associated to a component i grabbed from 3D warehouse and the jpg texture got saved by default in a folder embedded somewhere in my documents and settings folder. anyways it didn’t like it so i saved the texture in a different spot and it worked. I am wondering if my windows update from last night changed something in that initial document and settings folder which might have caused the problem.
hope this helps someone else.